In only a couple months, I'll be celebrating 4 years from first start on FreeEMS. It's a great feeling.

There's still much to do and yet all of my projects have ground to a halt until a solid and routine daycare can be found. That has been the case for a while and is why I've dropped off the radar almost completely. I'm either at work or trying to keep the baby in good shape.

A big part of making progress with my FreeEMS installation is having an always-available way to communicate with the ECU. Up until now that's mostly involved carrying various laptops in states of disrepair or decent laptops with semi-configured VMs back and forth between work and home. My Pi project stalled after it's critical-yet-cheap USB hub wasn't registering in Raspian and originally appeared to be having power problems (red herring). That led to a lot of wasted time through cable swaps, power adjustments, etc. etc. The entire thing will be ripped out shortly and brought to the office so I can properly test the hub.

I'm also trying to fight a speeding citation, an unpleasant process. There are no laws in the US for datalogging on the officer's end, so that along with the relationships built in court and frequency of claims mean these almost always fall flat.

Life's mostly be good, just incredibly busy. Hoping to take the Taco out for a long journey in the near future.

Baby-mama's pretty loaded down with daily childcare until we get daycare (we've been on multiple waiting lists for over a year). So anything I can do to offload the kids in the evenings on the weekends lets her do her research and not get any crap from her department. Childrearing is a real loss of individual time, but even with all the nonstop responsibilities, it's fun to watch little humans developing further and further every day. You try not to scheme so that they can be their own people, but I have plans for the minions.

The day I got the ticket, I wasn't driving the truck. That would have solved the issue right then and there. Won't mention anything further about it until the trial has passed (as they can use anything in court), but it's been interesting gathering info on police equipment and procedures.

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